Rowand44

I'm probably one of the few but I enjoy Puig's weird antics...that said, I don't think he's really the best fit with this team.

Lineup gonna be sexy.

I also would have been content with 82 wins in 2019.

If it was last year, absolutely...right now, give me Edwin and lets win a division.

I'm happy our new philosophy is to play for the 24 and 25 seasons when our best position player and best pitcher will be gone. This is fine strategy. Don't force the issue now because we want to be ready to go full force with out Yoan and Gio!

Every team who gives out these contracts goes in knowing they are probably going to have some bad money on their hands come the last few years. If you want to get these star players it's what you have to do. If the Sox want to keep playing poor and not force the issue this year then we're going to have a whole 3 year window with Yoan and Gio on this team. If you're the front office you have to make yourself uncomfortable at some point.

He's 3 years older than Manny when he hit free agency and also signed for 3 less years so ya.

I always love when people say stuff like this. In the history of sports, every fan base to ever fan base does this as a whole, it's not specific to the Sox. The difference being, if any fan base has the right to be pissed it's White Sox fans. And my comment has nothing to do with this move in particular as it's not official and I have no clue what they'd give up, it's just funny to me how much the last few days on Twitter or here Sox fans are picking on Sox fans for being too negative.

Also don't fuckin believe Bob's number, he says whatever the Sox tell him to.

And that's fine and dandy(and obviously true) but at some fuckin point you have to overpay to get one of these guys. We're going to keep pushing this shit back because we refuse to pay an extra 15 mill on a player and all the sudden Yoan and Kopech and Gio are hitting free agency and we didn't open their window to win soon enough.

They literally said that they thought they had the best offer on the table.

They certainly have earned the right to not be bashed.

EXACTLY. It's very weird to me how many people just refuse to go an extra 15 mill with a team that currently has no payroll.

Offer more, add another year, don't be such a hot garbage organization for a decade, all of the above? Once again, I'm not buying the Rosenthal report or the Sox guys, seems like PR spin at it's finest after the debacle of last year. That said, if our offer was 120 I'm guessing the Sox and Wheeler's agent were playing a bit of chicken with the agent saying there's another team in the same range and the Sox eventually balked. 2 million with a deciding factor of the fiance being close to home is a lot different than 50 million guaranteed and playing with your friends. Either way, I obviously have no clue what happened but this organization doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt so I'm not giving it to them.

Everyone can shape this however we want but the Sox lost...again. They're not going to be in on the top 2 because they're the White Sox and MadBum just isn't as good right now as Wheeler. Who knows if the Rosenthal report is true but even if it is, it's going to be another huge L of an offseason but hey we tried again or something.

6 of the top 10 highest paid players in baseball were pitchers this year...5 of them made it to at least the playoffs. 4 in the World Series. Just insanely stupid to pay pitchers a lot of money.

Wheeler has had one freakin injury, it’s not like he’s been out 12 times. Dude has been a great pitcher outside the TJ surgery. Still in his prime, it’s not hard to see why people want this dude. If we’re not going to be in on cole this is the dude to get.

You're not moving Robert out of CF.

Jason...

That was so fun. Dylan is so fuckin nasty, really pumped to watch him going forward.

Not a trait I would want personally.

There’d be a lot of pissed off fans if they moved Cease around tomorrow. Happy that they kept him pitching game 1.

This. I try very hard not to complain about umps/refs in any sport but that was legit one of the most one sided games I’ve ever seen.

Good point. My bad.

I hear there is one in Charlotte